TCS is producing a steady stream of students who, upon reaching upper school, enjoy working hard and thinking deeply. They love good books, art, music, and poetry. Many love nature, natural philosophy, and are cultivating mathematical minds. They possess a wealth of knowledge from their early education that enables them to converse more deeply than many adults. They know how to exist socially without cell phones and prefer human interaction. Most have a deeply formed love of God, and they have been shown the way. Every group of seniors so far has broadly exhibited the traits of our portrait of a graduate and have evidenced that they have received what we call, a real education.

We believe in educating through the Great Conversation. Our upper school students have been shaped by these authors and more: Moses, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Luke, Plutarch, Eusebius, Athanasius, Augustine, Dante, Luther, Shakespeare, Milton, Descartes, Locke, Austen, Dickens, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Orwell, T.S. Elliot, C.S Lewis, Julius Caesar (in Latin), Virgil (in Latin).

Our seniors prove their abilities and earn their diploma by delivering a thesis in the spring of their senior year. This necessitates skills that are no longer required in progressive education paradigms. Students must display significant rhetoric skills, read deeply, develop conviction related to big ideas, communicate logically and convincingly, and defend their convictions before a panel and amidst a full room of spectators. TCS students always rise to the occasion. Below is a small sampling of past thesis papers.

Scaling the Depths of Being

By Madelyn Hajovsky

Don’t Panic

By Sage Steffen

Beneath the Ancient Song

By Helen Wagner

Mount Purgatory

By Hunter Rapp

Our students have been highly successful in getting into the colleges and universities of their choice. So far they have been accepted to the following:

Abilene Christian University
Asbury University
Austin College
Baylor University, Honors College
Belmont University, Honors College
Biola University
Boyce College
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Colorado Christian University
Colorado School of Mines
Dallas Baptist University
Grove City College
Houston Christian University, Honors College
Letourneau University, Honors College
Lipscomb University, Honors College
Louisiana State University
Oral Roberts University, Honors College
Ouachita Baptist University
Patrick Henry College
Purdue University
Rice University
Samford University, University Fellows
St. John’s College
Texas A&M University, University Honors Program
Texas Christian University
Texas Tech University
The University of Texas, Austin, Plan II Honors
The University of Texas, San Antonio
Trinity University
University of Arkansas
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Houston, Honors College
University of Michigan
University of North Texas
University of Oklahoma
University of St. Thomas
University of Wyoming
Virginia Tech
Wheaton College

TCS upholds a unique tradition for a private school. Once a month, the bulk of our Rhetoric School gathers in our Academic Dean’s home to share a meal, fellowship, and study the Bible. The reason we list this as evidence of fruit is because, in many ways, it represents the goal. Our students want to be with their professors. They want to be with each other. And they want to worship God. Praise God for the fruit.

“I can say in all honesty that my education at Trinity Classical School was one of hardest things I’ve taken on in my life. I’ve always felt that I was never much of a scholar in comparison to many of my peers. I remember many long nights and stress filled weeks as I tried to keep up with a mountain of readings and homework. What was my takeaway? Nothing worth having comes easy. I was challenged and stretched at TCS like no other place I’d been and I am seeing the fruits of this labor. After graduating from TCS, college has seemed like a cakewalk in comparison. TCS’s approach to writing, literature, and rhetoric has helped me tremendously with my schoolwork and my job. Since I graduated I have already begun working as an admin for a property development company in Houston and will be starting a new job at Way Mechanical this fall. My time at TCS has undoubtedly fast-tracked my entry into my career field. It has helped me communicate clearly, effectively, and with confidence as well as shaped my mind to learn and analyze things quickly and efficiently. I believe there is currently a vacuum of young people entering most career fields who possess strong character, that are well educated, well adjusted, and strong willed individuals and companies are eagerly searching them out. Trinity Classical School is a training ground to produce such individuals to take on the real world. But most importantly, TCS builds faith in Christ, which is the groundwork for all things of true value and success. Their pursuit of truth and beauty has greatly impacted my walk of faith to this day. I am incredibly thankful to this school and its incredible teachers and staff for investing in me and many others.”

Joshua Simpson
TCS Class of 2021
University of Houston
Construction Management

“Trinity Classical School thoroughly prepared me for Texas A&M and the transition to being a college student by cultivating my love for the Lord, encouraging me to passionately seek depth in academics, and giving me a community that supports and draws me closer to Christ long after graduation. On my last full campus day, after thirteen years of TCS, I felt all the emotions culminate in gratitude while Mr. Anderson prayed Psalm 23 over me and the other seniors. In those moments, I fully comprehended the uniqueness of my education and the intentionality behind the entire process. I felt so loved by my school and the community surrounding it, and that made me beyond thankful for taking the road less traveled…that has made all the difference.”

Chloe Geiger
TCS Class of 2023
Texas A&M
Mays Business School

“I couldn't describe my education at TCS separately from talking about the people there. Whether in class or out of class, I was saturated not simply in the great conversation but also great community. I knew my teachers cared deeply for me and for the subjects they taught, which inspired me to engage with curiosity and excitement. The result was a joy in the act of learning for its own sake — a richness that my college classes, quite honestly, have only brushed at times.”

Hunter Rapp
TCS Class of 2020
University of Texas at Austin
English Major